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    Crazy in Love at the Lonely Hearts Bookshop
    Crazy in Love at the Lonely Hearts Bookshop
    Crazy in Love at the Lonely Hearts Bookshop
    Audiobook9 hours

    Crazy in Love at the Lonely Hearts Bookshop

    Written by Annie Darling

    Narrated by Laura Kirman

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    About this audiobook

    ’Sweet, funny and lovely! Marian Keyes

    A romantic treat, perfect for fans of Lucy Diamond and Jenny Colgan!

    You can go crazy searching for the one…

    Nina is addicted to bad boys, the wilder, the better. Despite her friends’ misgivings, she firmly believes that true love only takes one form: wild, full of passion and fire and punctuated by tempestuous arguments. She won’t settle for anything less.

    But years of swiping right has uncovered nothing but losers and flings, and Nina is no closer to finding her One True Love than she ever was. And when a man from her past walks into the shop Nina knows she has nothing to fear: the geekiest boy in her school has become a boring suit with no chance of making her heart go pitter patter.

    Which just shows how little Nina knows about her heart…

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateApr 5, 2018
    ISBN9780008275662
    Crazy in Love at the Lonely Hearts Bookshop
    Author

    Annie Darling

    Annie Darling lives in London in a tiny flat, which is bursting at the seams with teetering piles of books. Her two greatest passions in life are romance novels and Mr Mackenzie, her British Shorthair cat. The Little Bookshop Of Lonely Hearts is her first novel.

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    • 4/5
      Very witty and full of interesting characters. The end was a little rushed though.
    • 5/5
      Nina wants life to be an adventure. She's attracted to bad boys, she treats her appearance as her canvas and she has two beautiful bookish tattoo sleeves that show how passionate she is. She has many rules about dating and meets plenty of different men, but somehow she hasn't been able to find her one true love. Nina works at Happy Ever After, a bookshop specialized in romance. Books are her passion, but the shop is suffering. When it reopened there were plenty of ideas to make it a success. Unfortunately not all of them were implemented and Nina is itching to take over some of the more creative tasks. Will she get that chance?

      When Noah walks into Happy Ever After with his tablet to check on the employees and the customers Nina is not amused. Noah wants to help the shop to flourish, but while Nina would like that as well she doesn't like being watched and there's something about Noah that bothers her. When she finds out who he is, she's determined not to let him find out how she knows him. There's an attraction that's hard to resist, but Nina can't tell Noah everything about herself. This is something that can't end well. Will she lose love again before she has properly found it?

      Crazy in Love at the Lonely Hearts Bookshop is a fantastic love story. Nina is fabulous and I liked her style. She wears amazing dresses, she's confident and she can creatively express her knowledge about books. She's a fascinating person and I enjoyed reading every single word about her personality. She has spunk and pizazz in spades. Noah makes her feel uneasy and that's exactly what she needs. It's time for Nina to fall for someone head over heels. However, Nina is keeping something from Noah. I kept hoping she'd find the courage to tell him. He's a wonderfully sweet guy, a main character to fall in love with. He's smart, adventurous and absolutely adorable. They're a perfect couple, but something is standing in their way. Finding out if there would be a solution for this magical duo, made me fly through the pages of their mesmerizing story.

      Annie Darling knows how to describe true love. She approaches the subject with a large dosage of humor and plenty of fantastic drama. I enjoyed every single word of Crazy in Love at the Lonely Hearts Bookshop. Happy Ever After is a delightful setting, the perfect place to fall in love, with both books and gorgeous people. Annie Darling carefully explores each layer of her main characters' personalities and the result is a beautiful complete story filled with riveting dialogue and many captivating moments. Crazy in Love at the Lonely Hearts Bookshop is another brilliant romantic story by Annie Darling, I highly recommend the amazing Lonely Hearts Bookshop series.
    • 4/5
      Nina has spent most of the last decade looking for passion in her life. She wants a Heathcliff to her Cathy (minus the toxic masculinity, obvs) and she's willing to kiss a lot of frogs to find him. When her boss at Happy Ever After, a bookshop that specializes in romance novels, brings in an efficiency expert to help them improve business, Nina is mildly alarmed. Straight-laced Noah is never not in responsible navy blue and he keeps hovering and making notes on his iPad about Nina, which she finds disconcerting. However, what may be even more alarming is that Nina is maybe just a little attracted to Noah? Which is ridiculous because a less Heathcliff man has ever appeared in her life.Yet another charming romance in the Lonely Hearts Bookshop series. While the basic points of the plot are pretty easy to identify from the early pages, it remains an enjoyable read. While I don't share Nina's love for [Wuthering Heights], I recognize the abiding love of a reader for a book and that remains a delight. For fans of the series or readers who enjoy British bookish contemporary romances.
    • 4/5
      {Third of 4 Lonely Hearts Bookshop series. Romance, London, chick lit} (2018)This is the third book about the three ladies at the 'Happy Ever After' exclusively-romance-bookshop (which used to be 'Bookends') and follows on a few months after [True Love at the Lonely Hearts Bookshop]; Posy is married, Very has a boyfriend and Nina - tattoo and piercing covered, size 14 (UK), dressed in '50s vintage and the expert on dating - is never without someone (she goes for the 'bad boy' type) to go out with. But she's nearly thirty and still hasn't found The One, her perfect man, her Heathcliff; Nina's touchstone book being Emily Brontë's [Wuthering Heights]. Each chapter has a quote which, I assume, come from the book; I didn't recognise most of them (despite having read it two or three times, I haven't read it since I was at school and - to be honest - it wasn't one of my favourites).Nina is perpetually late to work (despite the fact that she now lives in the flat above the bookshop) and one day is startled to find Noah in her workspace. Noah is one of Sebastian Thorndyke's best friends and is doing an efficiency study on 'Happy Ever After' to help the business improve its cashflow. But, obviously, he can't be her wild, passionate Heathcliff - he's quiet and earnest and wears navy blue suits. And Nina has a nagging sense that she's met him before. When he asks her out to dinner, it can't be a date because they sort of work together and he's not her type so Nina doesn't flirt the way she usually does on dates and acts, I think, more genuinely as a consequence. But then they go out on another date and ...Maybe Nina doesn’t need a Heathcliff after all.Despite being my namesake, Nina is very different to me, on the suface; she's confident and she knows what she wants. Doesn't she? But maybe wild and passionate doesn't make for a lifetime relationship. She knows she wants something different from her mum - who seems to disapprove of everything Nina does - and her grandmother and great grandmother who were all married by twenty with a baby on the way and who all still live in Worcester Park (a suburb of London).She was going to play it cool.Then Noah looked up, caught sight of Nina hovering uncertainly in the no-man’s-land between shop and counter and he smiled broadly and brilliantly as if just the sight of her was enough to make everything right in his world.I'm half in love with Noah myself; he's kind and thoughtful and has hidden depths and strengths.I liked the laser tag party (and, yeah, kids in London speak like that) and I liked the visit to Haworth. I've not been there myself but I have once, in recent years, crossed the Yorkshire Moors and they are breathtaking, literally.Light and fun but not too fluffy.4 stars
    • 4/5
      I'm loving this series but it took me a while to warm up to this one. Nina and Noah are so different that at first, it was hard for me to put them together. Nina likes bad boys but also wants a relationship, which is somewhat incompatible. Noah is the geeky, efficiency expert brought in to analyze the workings of the bookshop. They're pretty much oil and water for the first part of the book. Once again, the rest of this fabulous cast join in to make things more complicated (Sebastian, the Rudest Man in London is my fav).Another good book in this wonderful series.
    • 3/5
      I have less in common with Nina than I do with her colleagues (the protagonists of the other books in this series): she’s into make-up, tattoos and Wuthering Heights. But it was interesting seeing why she’s embraced both Wuthering Heights and her own particular style so fiercely -- she’s finding her own path, one that differs from what her conservative working class family expected.Some of the resolutions came about a bit too easily. However, I liked getting a different perspective on the bookshop, I enjoyed bits of her romance with Noah, and I share some of Nina’s fascination with the Bronte sisters.
    • 3/5
      I am really enjoying this series, although the denouement to this one was a bit less dramatic and satisfying than the previous two. No tears.